Our campaign will focus on the Three R’s:
Restoring school funding by rolling back tax breaks for wealthy corporations,
Rebuilding our economy by helping local small businesses create local jobs, and
Reducing political corruption by ending corporate kickbacks to political campaigns.
“As a parent and teacher, I believe our community deserves better, more effective representation in Olympia. Our middle class pay some of the highest State taxes in the nation, yet our kids are forced to attend the lowest funded, most overcrowded schools. Money that should go towards building and operating schools has instead been diverted - by our corporate controlled legislature - into billions of dollars in tax breaks for wealthy multi-national corporations - who then ship our jobs overseas. We can close the $2 billion budget shortfall without any cuts to schools or any tax increases simply by ending corporate welfare for the super rich.
These billions of dollars in tax breaks to wealthy corporations not only harm our kids, but they harm local small businesses and promote outsourcing of jobs by giving multinational corporations an unfair advantage. It is time to restore a level playing field for local small businesses in our State so that we can restore jobs and rebuild our economy. It is time to restore fair school funding so that our children will have fair class sizes and a fair chance at success in life. It is time to change the direction in Olympia by ending corporate kickbacks. I am therefore announcing my intention to run for the Washington State House of Representatives.
We have had enough of Wall Street bankers and wealthy oil barons buying elections in our State and using their record profits to ship jobs overseas - leaving behind record unemployment here in Washington State. We are opposed to billionaires receiving unfair tax breaks - while thousands of teachers are fired and the futures of one million children are put at risk. Instead of cutting school funding, I will cut loopholes wealthy corporations use to avoid paying State taxes. This will not harm these corporations as they can deduct their State taxes from their federal taxes. But it will allow us to restore school funding in our State AND lower taxes on our middle class - and it will create a more level playing field between small local businesses and big multinational corporations. This election is not about the Democratic versus the Republican Party. It is about the long term needs of our children versus the short term greed of multinational corporations.
I want to thank the thousands of concerned citizens who supported my past campaigns – and I ask for your help to win the election in 2012. If you have had enough of Wall Street Billionaires buying elections, and you would like to join our campaign to create a better future, email us. Together, we can break the power of corporate lobbyists, restore school funding, help local businesses and rebuild our economy.“
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During the 2008 and 2010 elections, David ran for the House of Representatives against a corporate lobbyist for banks and oil companies. Despite being outspent more than ten to one, David received thousands more votes than any Democratic legislative challenger in the history of East King County.
David has a Masters Degree in Education and has been a community college instructor for over 20 years.
He is the Director of the Fair School Funding Coalition (fairschoolfundingcoalition.org) and has written extensively on problems with the Washington State Budget (see realwashingtonstatebudget.info).
David has also served on King County and Washington State Planning Commissions. He is a homeowner in North Bend where his daughter attends school in the Snoqualmie Valley School District.